Bitters



IJNrrED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

SAM'UEL A. GEOFF, OF LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

BITTERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 238,581, dated March 8, 1881,

Application filed December 22, 1830. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL A. GEOFF, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lancaster, in the county of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Medicinal Compound or Bit-ters, of which the following is a specification.

My composition consists of the following ingredients, combined in the proportions stated, viz: one and seven-eighths pound ground onbebs, seven-eighths of a pound elecampaneroot, one-fourth of a pound buchu-leaves, two ounces Peruvian bark, four ounces soapwort, two ounces slippery-elm bark, two ounces serpentaria, one ounce quassia, and one ounce cinnamon-bark, the quantities here used being avoirdupois weight. These ingredients are pulverized and then soaked for twenty-four hours in a inenstruum composed of thirty gallons of cologne-spirits and fifteen gallons of water, after which time the liquid is drawn off slowly.

The above composition is an effective remedy for all diseases arising from a disordered'stoinach or a diseased condition of the blood.

For adults the ordinary dose is a wine-glassful three times a day; it the appetite is good, after meals; if not good, before. Men of delicate constitution and ladies should begin with smaller doses and increase with their strength. For children the dose is, for two years old, fifteen drops; three years old, twenty five drops; four years old, half a tea-spoonful; eight years old, one tea-spoonful; twelve years old, one table-spoonful.

I am aware of the common use of these ingredients separately and in various other combinations; but I am not aware that all of the ingredients of my hitters have been used together.

\V hat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

The herein-described medicinal compound or hitters, to be used for all diseases arising from a disordered stomach or a diseased condition of the blood, consisting of the liquid obtained by thoroughly extracting the strength from ground cubebs, elecampane-root, buchuleaves, Peruvian bark, soap-wort, slippery-elm bark, serpentaria, quassia, and cinnamon-bark, by soaking the proportions specified in colognespirits.

SAMUEL A. GEOFF. Witnesses:

JOSEPH SAMSON," WM. R. GERI-IAR'I. 

